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Raw water health craze is a bad idea

04-Jan-2018

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Raw water advocates worry that filtration is removing necessary minerals.

But it also removes dangerous bacteria, viruses and parasites that can make you sick.

You can get the minerals you need from a healthy diet.

Molecules in water from a spring or from the tap are identical

The lack of clean water kills hundreds of thousands of children a year.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National public health institute of the United States

David Jones

A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Michelle Francl

Frank B. Mallory Professor of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College

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Diet and Nutrition